[BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Wed Aug 22 17:46:18 EDT 2007


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:40 -0400]
> 
> >Also, I have "Window Follows Pointer" and "Highlight Window" set to 
> >"no", so in theory BRLTTY should not even try to open any GPM device, 
> >right?
> 
> Please retest with the latest revision.

It is better.  But if you happen to turn "Window Follows Pointer" on 
and back off then the message flood starts again.

Can't it be made to simply ignore GPM entirely whenever the option is 
turned off?


Nicolas


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